- What's up?
You're listening to KPISS.FM.
Broadcasting live from Myrtle Beach, Brooklyn
under the M train from the Dodge Swinger OceanSide 1977 RV.
(fast rockabilly music)
My name is Sheri Barclay,
and do I have to keep talking over the train?
This is my internet radio station, KPISS.FM,
a podcast recording studio, event space,
and just general haven for freaks in Bushwick.
- I put an envelope with $5,000 just right
in the glove box there and, you know, I thought
how about I send these guys over to you?
'Cause they want to take my toes.
- [Man on Phone] They want to take your what?
- Toes, my toes.
Uh, my name is Drennen.
I host Maximum Joy.
I play, I guess a wide,
a wide spectrum of stuff that, like. I don't know that
anybody really wants to listen to.
'80s New Wave, it's a lot of, like, '70s punk.
It's a lot of '90s alternative.
I started the show today with this country song
called I Might Have to Burn Atlanta Down by
this guy Ed Bruce and it's so sick.
I get two hours to come in here and just
I talk to nobody except for whoever happens to be listening
and I make jokes about how, like, I'm inside of an RV
and I let the space kind of inform I guess the tone.
- I started searching for RVs outside of New York
because I knew they would be cheaper.
And that's where we got this in rural Pennsylvania.
It had a really, really entertaining ad.
The person who owned this RV before
was a rockabilly promoter.
He also gave us the time to go to Pennsylvania
and buy the thing, beating out the other people
who wanted it, because he knew that it would live on
to be this amazing radio station.
So, he was actually crying
when he signed over the title to us.
So, this is the station.
We have two Technics here.
The best turntables in the world.
Allen and Heath mixer.
Our MP3 controller.
This is our console here.
But it's a passion project, so, you know, we gotta
find a way to help pay for all this stuff.
So that's why you see this pink step van
on the lot as well.
So, they help us subsidize and we help them
by giving them a cool, cheap place to sell vintage clothes.
- Hello, my name is Lisa Carr.
I'm a digital designer and art director.
I run OPT NYC with Johnny.
- My name is Johnny.
This is Other People's Trash.
We're here at Myrtle Beach, aka the KPISS lot.
We love the environment,
the fact that people are coming in and out constantly
doing shows, we extend a discount
to anybody who does a show out here.
- I also have a podcast with my friend
and it's called The Weekly Handjob. (laughs)
And we run it every other Wednesday.
- So, we have a variety of shows on KPISS, obviously.
News and politics, comedy, vinyl
and like rare music enthusiasts.
Yeah, there are characters
and a surreal world with its own narrative
developing on KPISS as we speak, basically.
It's a universe, really.
- I started in, I want to say January.
I'm studying Communications and Arts
and Entertainment Management.
And I'm a sophomore.
I do a lot of archiving on the website,
so we take shows that have been done in the RV
and we post them so you can go online
and you can see what tracks are played
and who did what and all that stuff.
I also do my own show called Emily the Intern
and I have, like, bands on that I interview and stuff.
We had a show with this band called Not Amused on the lot
that I helped to get together, so we had two bands
play out here outside the RV
and then just a bunch of kids in the lot
and they played for like an hour or so.
(rock music)
- All right.
My name's Devin Finley.
But I go by the name Specs the Almighty One.
I do a show here at KPISS.FM called the IPA Boyz.
What we do, is we drink a whole lot of IPAs
and we talk a lot of (beep).
And this is what it's all about.
Check this out, check out this space right here.
Come here, this is a place to be.
It's a family environment.
Live at KPISS.FM.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- It's called KPISS for a couple reasons.
Our first studio was disgusting and smelled like piss.
It's a pun on streaming.
It's a radio station built on a pun.
Internet radio station built on a pun.